Project Old School-Building Out the Doors

Ever Since Project Old School's inception, there were plans to fit the truck with one-piece glass. I knew this would be difficult, given the triangular shape of the opening. The reason is that unless the window is all the way up in the channel or all the way down, there is no support to keep the glass from flopping around, or, worse yet, falling out and breaking. No Limit Engineering in San Berdoo advertises the glass, so I made the call to shop owner Rob MacGregor to get the skinny.

In addition to installing kits at the shop, Rob offers a kit in rough form. In addition to the glass itself, he modifies a kit from Specialty Power Windows to use specifically with '64-66 GM trucks. This is not simply a plug-and-play deal, though. Several areas of the door need to be trimmed to make room for the larger glass. Also the channel off of the old wing window needs to be modified for reuse as well. So if you just can't see cutting into a perfectly good door, then one-piece glass may not be in your future.

Since Old School was finally going to have door glass, I was finally going to have to install some kind of solenoid system. For this, AutoLoc came to the rescue with their complete shaved door handle kit with remote door poppers. Also, since this is Old School we're talking about, I could never in good conscience have power window switches in plain view. AutoLoc helped me out in this department as well with their new Electronic Window Crank Switch. This way, my high-tech doors will still be sporting the stock crank! To celebrate this, I picked up the new door and window cranks along with new door seals and check links from Brothers Trucks in Corona.

Again, this is no easy job, even though Rob and the crew at No Limit make it look easy. It would not take much to completely ruin a door during this buildup. But in my opinion, the clean look of the one-piece glass is worth all the work.